Around 55 tonnes of EU-funded medical provides arrived in northwestern Syria from Türkiye on Thursday, in line with a UN well being official.
As a part of an EU air bridge to Syria, the provides crossed Türkiye’s Cilvegozu border publish and have been transported to a warehouse in Idlib, a metropolis within the northwest, stated Mrinalini Santhanam of the World Health Organization.
“There’s one more air bridge planned for February,” she instructed Agence France-Presse (AFP), including that it was “still in the planning stages,” with talks “to determine the volume and scale.”
The provides, which might be distributed to healthcare facilities in Idlib and the Aleppo area, are a part of an EU humanitarian bridge introduced by Brussels on Dec. 13.
The purpose is to help Syria’s battered healthcare system following the ouster of Bashar al-Assad by rebels on Dec. 8.
Included within the cargo have been 8,000 emergency surgical kits, anesthetic provides, IV fluids, sterilization supplies, and medicines to forestall illness outbreaks, the WHO stated.
The civil conflict, which broke out in 2011, devastated Syria’s healthcare system, with “almost half of the hospitals (there) not functional,” WHO planning analyst Lorenzo Dal Monte instructed AFP in late December.
He stated the 50-tonne cargo from Dubai included “mainly trauma and surgical kits.”
Another 5 tonnes of provides have been introduced in from one other stockpile in Denmark, together with emergency well being kits, winter clothes, and water purification tablets, the WHO stated.
Source: www.dailysabah.com